[ 🎥 ] What's new in #Veeam Data Cloud Entra ID Edition! The last month has seen a lot of groundwork being laid for the rest of this exciting year so I wanted to give a long promised overview to our #EntraID Protection within #VeeamDataCloud. youtu.be/lfBZI0IRxsE #Veeam100

[ 🎥 ] What's new in Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365 - July 2025 Last month we introduced our #Microsoft365 data protection workload to our modern unified experience within #VeeamDataCloud. I've given a quick tour of this below. youtu.be/AEHQP-Lnfv8?... #Veeam100

So excited to finally talk about this! Veeam Software’s Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 joins the Unified Multi-Workload Experience! Full details below 👇 www.veeam.com/blog/veeam-d... #Veeam100

ICYMI: New VLOG Series @hangtentech.bsky.social & I have just launched our new VLOG series 'VDC For Me'. Join us each month as we answer the question "What's in Veeam Data Cloud for me?". First session is available now 👇 micoolpaul.com/2025/02/28/n... #Veeam100 #Veeam @veeam.bsky.social

[ 🎥] Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365: 2024 Year in Review Starting a new series, on all the great new features we're continuously adding to #Veeam Data Cloud! First up, a review of some of our key milestone releases over the past year. youtu.be/wuLYm11SYI0

Lots to look forward to next week. First time in Sweden. First time at #ESPC24 and looking forward to first speaking session at ESPC24 as well! Who else will be there?

[📜] Ubuntu 22.04 LTS & Netplan: Troubleshooting Bonded Interface Creation When building a physical Linux server with some questionable switching, I opted for active/passive networking configuration but Netplan didn't like it. After much testing I've made a guide 👇 micoolpaul.com/2024/07/05/u...

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[📜] #Veeam Data Cloud Microsoft 365: Remove Deleted Sites from Backup Jobs In this blog post I show you how Veeam Data Cloud alerts you to deleted #SharePoint or #Teams sites, and how to resolve these warnings if it's intentional. #VeeamVanguard #VeeamLegend micoolpaul.com/2024/05/22/v...

[📜] World Backup Day 2024: Being SMART and Predicting Hardware Failures All devices have a limited lifespan, but we don't need to wait for them to break to know it's time to replacement, as I discuss in this #WorldBackupDay post! micoolpaul.com/2024/03/22/w... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard #vExpert

[📜] World Backup Day 2024: SLAs & Exceeding Them Why do we invest so much redundancy in infrastructure, then let backups, our last resort for data resilience, have minimal room for error? Thought piece in new post! micoolpaul.com/2024/03/21/w... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard #vExpert

[📜] VMware vCenter Update Manager: Unable to Import ISOs or Upload Patches In today's quick tip post, I wrote up an issue with #VMware vCenter's update manager in a recent project I worked on, and how to fix it. #vExpert micoolpaul.com/2024/03/01/v...

Great way to end the week! Reaching three years with the amazing #VMware #vExpert programme! It's been great to learn so much from the talented people within the #vCommunity and I look forward to another year of knowledge sharing and opportunities!

[📜] Google: Egress Fees Waived - The Reality vs The Marketing You may have heard that #Google is waiving egress fees from #GCP, but as always there is more to the story than a headline. I've provided a breakdown of when these fees are waived, and how you'd go about getting them waived below. 👇

[📜] Veeam & Supported Products Reaching End of Life in 2024 Take time to reflect on the year ahead & make sure you're not leaving yourself vulnerable to security risks in OS or applications. All #Veeam & Veeam supported platforms with an EOL in 2024 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

[📜] Veeam Backup & Replication: v12 Compression Improvements ICYMI: #Veeam dramatically improved the performance & efficiency of compression in v12! By how much? Check out my blog post below 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard micoolpaul.com/2023/11/27/v...

[📜] #Veeam B&R x #Azure Storage: Failed to Copy Blob If you're having issues with lifecycle operations failing due to 'Failed to Copy Blob' when working with Veeam and #MicrosoftAzure storage, I've got a solution 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard micoolpaul.com/2023/11/22/v...

[📜] #Veeam B&R - NAS Cache Metadata Movement Gets Stuck I was migrating some NAS Cache shares when the jobs started to get stuck, so I wrote up how to gracefully deal with this issue and how to work around this. #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

Day One is underway at the #Veeam100Summit and I'm reporting as close to live as I can over on the Veeam Community hub! community.veeam.com/blogs-and-po... #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

The #Veeam100Summit is underway and Michael Cade is smashing it with a great hands on #Kasten session. Amazing to be in the same room with so many amazing #VeeamLegend & #VeeamVanguard's!

[📜] #Veeam NAS Backup: Invalid Root Item Type In my latest blog post I'll show you how to work around those pesky symlinks that can impact your ability to protect NAS shares! #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

And we're back for day two of #SFD26, today we'll be looking at data & storage trends from none other than SNIA! Don't miss out 👇 techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/

And we're back for the last segment of the day, the delegate roundtable, tune in below 👇 #SFD26 techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/

Solidigm are up next and they're announcing a new product! Tune in below 👇 #SFD26

TechFieldDay's #SFD26 is underway shortly, looking forward to hearing from CTERA, SNIA & Solidigm on their latest innovations and announcements. Don't want to miss out on Storage Field Day? Be sure to watch it all happening live on the TFD website: techfieldday.com/event/sfd26/

Poor Security Standards from Transport For London. Had to register for the ULEZ emissions, you can’t have any special characters in your password 😩

[📜]#Veeam Backup & Replication: Performance Impact of Pending Tasks If your VBR server is demanding additional resources, you might be putting it under unnecessary stress. Read on to find out more 👇 #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

Excited to announce I'll be speaking at #VeeamON Tour in London! ICYMI, #Veeam are coming to London, UK on the 14th Sept to continue the Tour! Explore what's new & upcoming within the world of data protection, and hear from Veeam, their partners, and other industry experts! Register now 👇

[📜] OVH Network Security Architecture Considerations If you're planning on working with OVH for any hosted server requirements, be sure to treat this like other public clouds, and lock it down. This guide will help you avoid networking pitfalls and get started 👇 #vExpert #VeeamVanguard #VeeamLegend

Modern Twitter in 3 pictures. Someone promotes shooting people engaged in same sex relationships, Twitter disregards the rules of wishing harm on someone and promoting violence, finds the account has done no wrong. For $8 a month you too can be an unapologetic bigot! Disgusting

I enjoy mucking around with tech and exploring use-cases. I’ve been tinkering with an RPi and how it could impact @Veeam designs if that was ever an avenue they explored. Sneak peak: #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

[📜] How to Actually Increase Powerline Adapter Throughput If you’re working from home, you might be relying on Powerline adapters to get internet to your office. Follow my guide to get the most speed out of these devices 👇 #remoteworking

One of my favourite things about blogging is that at the weekend my blog stats always do the same thing, only my support articles get views. And I just think if I’m helping at least one person get off-call and back to their family sooner, that’s a great reason to write!

ICYMI: [📜] Microsoft 365: Changing Azure Subscriptions for Metered APIs A quick write-up on how to change which #Azure subscription gets billed for Metered APIs such as #MicrosoftTeams protected APIs #M365 #Microsoft365 #MSFTTeams #MicrosoftSharePoint #SharePoint

[📜] #Microsoft #Azure Resource Locks & Alerts - A 'What, How, and Why?' Guide If you want to protect #MicrosoftAzure resources from accidental/malicious deletion, check out this guide for tips on implementing resource locks. #VeeamLegend #VeeamVanguard

👋 hi everyone! I’m Michael. I primarily talk about data protection, but I like to wrap around a layer of platform/application awareness. I lead a Veeam User Group focused on protecting Cloud and SaaS workloads. I’ll mainly be talking about Veeam, VMware, Microsoft365 and Azure. Follow if interested!